1. Accepting a job offer can either lead to career success or to dissatisfaction and high turnover. 2. The advantages and disadvantages of the offer must be weighed carefully, as well as those of the present job. 3. A carefully designed career plan with well-defined goals contributes to job satisfaction and facilitates the evaluation of offers. 4. A key component of a career program should be r...

Nurses in South Africa form the backbone of primary health care (PHC) service delivery. Therefore, it is essential that they experience job satisfaction as effort and commitment of staff play a crucial role in determining the quality of services. However, South African public health services are faced with severe shortages of nurses due to work overload, poor working conditions, uncompetitive r...

INTRODUCTION Burnout causes physical and emotional tireness, job dissatisfaction, resulting in reduced efficiency and a feeling of alienation from colleagues. Also, job satisfaction has a major impact on job-related behaviors, such as turnover intention, absenteeism, and job performance. The aim of this study was to determine job burnout, job satisfaction rate, and related factors among health ...

The aim of the current study is to identify the relation between the burnout syndrome, locus of control, job satisfaction and age. To establish the relationships, 113 Romanian high school teachers completed a three partquestionnaire which comprised: Oldenburg Burnout Inventory, Job Satisfaction Survey, Work Locus of Control Scale, and factual data. Burnout is significantly associated with exter...

We use long-run panel data to investigate the dynamic link between work and retirement in Australia and the UK. In particular, we ask whether job dissatisfaction affects future retirement decisions. The results in both countries indicate that, relative to satisfied workers, those reporting job dissatisfaction are significantly more likely to retire in the next period, although their retirement ...

BACKGROUND Studies of career and parenting satisfaction have focused separately on medical students, residents and practising physicians. The objective of this study was to compare satisfaction across a spectrum of stages of medical career. METHODS A survey of incoming medical students, current medical students, residents and physician teachers at the University of Saskatchewan was conducted ...

Job satisfaction has been shown to have a direct relationship to the quality of work. Are nursing home administrators satisfied with their work? How do they compare with their counterparts in other industries? The results of this survey, using the Job Description Index (JDI) and the Job in General (JIG) scale as published by Bowling Green State University, indicate that nursing home administrat...

BACKGROUND The aim of the work presented was to assess job satisfaction of a number of nurses from different departments working in public hospitals in Italy. The assessment was carried out through the combined use of questionnaires, which measured different aspects of job satisfaction, such as coping abilities, stress level and optimism/pessimism. The literature supports the fact that nurses' ...